In 1970 Lindsey, a graduate of the School of Theology at the Dallas Theological Seminary, left Campus Crusade to begin the Jesus Christ Light and Power Company, a youth oriented ministry on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California (UCLA). Previous to this he had begun to compile a number of eschatologically based sermons publishing them under the title The Late Great Planet Earth later that year. The book introduced dispensationalism to the widest audience ever by showing dispensationalism's connection to current events. It focused on the Middle East in an upbeat and accessible style, and his book sold between eighteen and twenty- eight million copies. He went on to write dozens of books based on ideas of Christian Prophecy.

In the Late Great Planet Earth , The Antichrist's revived Roman Empire was the European Common Market. The northern confederacy was the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. The southern confederacy was an Arab-African coalition headed by Egypt. The kings of the east were the Chinese Communists. He translated "fire and brimstone" into nuclear explosions and showed the chaos of the sixties as signs of the times. He predicted that before Antichrist is revealed and end-times events accelerate, the United States will decline into a second-rate power, done in by materialism, immorality, addiction to drugs, and false religion—or possibly destroyed by a surprise nuclear attack.

After he wrote the Late Great Plane Earth, Lindsey went on to publish:

Satan is Alive and Well On Planet Earth
There's a New World Coming
The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon
The Final Battle
The Terminal Generation
Planet Earth: The Final Chapter
Rapture
Apocalypse Code
Blood Moon
Vanished into Thin Air: the Hope of Every Believer
The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad